Provisions
Signature proposed for 1870 • Signature
REJECTED
The Text
Done in convention, in the city of Albany, the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-second.
In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.
WILLIAM A. WHEELER,
President, and Delegate at Large.
Luther Caldwell, Secretary.
A Few Facts
• Has 50 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1869
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1870
• Been in Article Signature:
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1847-Signature
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